Florida Senate Passes Textbook Review Legislation to Stop Islamic Propaganda to our Children
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs
This is a very good first step to purge our public schools of Islamic proselytizing and historical revisionism. Check your children and your grandchildren’s textbooks. Find like-minded parents. Pushback.
“Florida Senate Passes Textbook Review Legislation,” By Creeping Sharia
…to stop the stealth Islamic proselytizing of your children.
Aya Sewell, Sarasota Citizen Activist Protests
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Last Friday in Tallahassee, April 11, 2014, the Republican controlled
Florida Senate passed SB864 sponsored by Sen. Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) by
a narrow vote of 21 to 19. The measure would eliminate State Department
of Education control over selection of textbooks returning that role to
Florida’s 67 school districts, requiring open public hearing on texts
used in courses. The bill reflected in part concerns of conservative
Groups over the Common Core Curriculum State Standards, sponsored by the
National Association of Governors and Council of Chief State School
Officers seeking to impose national standards. Despite that criticism
the Common Core has been adopted in Forty-four states, the District of Columbia, four territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA).
However, SB864
was largely prompted by a different issue; objections of parental
groups in several Florida counties in about the treatment of Islam and
Muslim culture in world history textbooks on the Florida State
Department of Education list of approved texts. A companion bill (HB 921)
is working its way through the Florida House sponsored by Rep. Matt
Gaetz of Fort Walton. That version would provide a local option to
districts to review texts; however, the selections must still meet state
standards. Gaetz was quoted in a News Herald
editorial saying:
“I think there’s an increasing frustration by
parents in our state, that they don’t have a lot of say regarding the
content and materials their children use in the classroom.”
Local advocates here in Florida drew attention to misrepresentations of Islam in protests in Volusia, Brevard and Sarasota Counties. Our Iconoclast post on
the subject, “Sarasota, Florida’s biased Islam textbook problem”,
highlighted the relentless efforts of citizen activist Aya Sewell.
Ms.
Sewell is of Iraqi Jewish heritage, members of her family were subject
to a 1941 pogrom against the Jewish population in Baghdad, the Farhud.
Sewell led a campaign against such texts locally in Sarasota, as well
as before the Florida Department of Education. Elsewhere in the US,
Tennessee parents have also raised objections to similar course material extolling Palestinian suicide bombers. Americans for Peace and Tolerance
(APT) in Boston accused the Newton, Massachusetts school board and
superintendent for permitting use of texts and course materials that
engage in promoting false information regarding both Islam and
demonization of Israel.
APT undertook content and bias analysis and
promoted their findings that included placing ads in local area media
and a petition campaign.
An article in the current edition of Education Week noted the debate over the pending Florida textbook legislation:
[Sen. ]Hays said the legislation was needed
so that school board members will be accountable to parents and voters.
He said school board members have blamed the state for the textbooks
they picked.
“This bill imposes on the local school board members the responsibility and accountability to their citizens,” Hays said.
Opponents complained it would cost districts
money to review textbooks. Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, said she
was worried that some districts would wind up censoring some books,
while other senators raised questions about whether districts would pick
textbooks aligned to the state’s current standards.
Even Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart questioned Hays’ bill.
“From a practical standpoint it lifts a
burden from us,” Stewart said. “But we heard loud and clear from
districts that they rely on (the state review). They need that. They
don’t have the resources to be able to do that.”
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